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Have you ever felt stuck?

Of course you have. We all have felt stuck in our lives at some point.

Stuck in a way where we feel no matter what we do nothing seems to work; we stay where we are.

Somehow we cannot pull ourselves out and that is really how it feels to be stuck.

If you’re someone who is feeling that way right now as we speak in your life, your career, perhaps in your business then you definitely want to hear this conversation.

I have invited Karin Bellantoni who is an executive coach but she is also a power house entrepreneur that came from a corporate environment and went on to build a successful multimillion dollar company with over 18 employees in less than 2 years.

She was stuck for a long time in her own journey, but through perseverance and sheer determination she was able to break through.

And now she works with people that are feeling the same way she did once.

Stuck. Not knowing how to get out.

My guest, Karin is a master at the art of getting unstuck. In this episode we will discuss:

How do you know you’re stuck because one of the things about being stuck is sometimes you don’t even know you’re stuck.

What are the signs of being stuck

What can you do to get unstuck and move forward with your life.

Steps you can take to transition from a unsatisfying career path to loving what you do

If you find yourself without meaning and you find yourself wanting to work on what you’re passionate about; create a company, a non-profit, a summit, an institution whatever it may be.

This is the time now for you to make that Change and get unstuck in life

There are steps that you can take to get unstuck and feel like you’re going in the direction of where you want to go. There is a certain methodology that you can follow and we will lay that out for you in this episode.

Get Our FREE Video Series That Shows You How To Turn Your Passion into a Business.

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What does it take to tackle some of the biggest problems that is facing our planet, our species and the entire ecology of this planet?

It takes guts, a lot of hard work, a vision and a little inspiration.

Plastic Bank is a Vancouver based social enterprise committed to preventing the flow of plastic into our oceans by monetizing waste and improving lives.

The company focuses mainly on recycling plastics that would otherwise end up in the ocean.

I had the privilege of having Lindsay Christianson, the Business Development Director at Plastic Bank on the podcast to talk about what it takes to tackle such a global problem. Lindsay works closely with David Kratz the founder of Plastic Bank in making their vision a reality.

In this episode you will learn:

How much plastic waste is generated each year and how much of that ends in the ocean

How does the plastic bank turn waste plastic into cash

How does plastic circulate in the ocean and why is it a global environmental catastrophe

The mindset needed to tackle a problem this big

How to create a compelling message that will move the masses

What opportunities exist for entrepreneurs in social plastic and the environment

A friend of mine came up to me a couple of days ago and said that he had been laid off from his job…

that he was in for the last seven years.Seven years! That’s a long time to be in a job with one company.

The downsizing in his company left him feeling that his world had somehow come to an end; that everything around him was collapsing. He was in a state of fear not knowing how he was going to put food on the table, how he was going to support his family. He felt like he was being crushed by this sudden circumstance of being unemployed.

I know the feeling that my friend was going through, because I’ve been through it.

I was laid off five years ago from a company that I was working for a long time. I thought I was in an absolutely safe environment that nothing would happen to my safety net but that was taken away from me in a moment, without even a notice, without any indication one day I was called into the office and my boss said that my services were no longer necessary.

I had automatically and almost instantly become obsolete.

That is when my world came to a collapse.

But even in that moment of despair, in that moment of feeling like the world around you is crumbling there is a tremendous opportunity there if we are willing to see it that way.

What do I mean by an opportunity? When I got laid off I was in a position where I had to rediscover myself. Going into another job seemed like a possibility for another layoff and broken dreams.

There was something within me that felt a certain level of relief, I felt like I had been set free.

That is when I discovered that I needed to go deeper into who I was as a person, what my passions were and what were the things that lit me up.

When I did that the entrepreneurial journey revealed itself. I started exploring the things that I really wanted to do that is when I started my last business.It was an experience of a lifetime, something that felt absolutely thrilling but at the same time absolutely scary to start with.

Why was that because I was going onto a path that I hadn’t before. I had my first business when I was but for a longtime I worked in the corporate world as a professional, but this was again an opportunity where I got the chance to dive straight into the thing that moved me the most, the things that lit me up the most.

If you’re going through a time where you’ve either been laid off from a job or you got fired, please know that this is a tremendous opportunity that’s just waiting for you to explore.

An opportunity to ask yourself the questions that are really going to matter at the end of your life.

It may feel scary to go in a direction you don’t know anything about but let me remind you that when we are born we know nothing, we are void of any knowledge.

We are a clean slate with nothing on it, but we learn and learn fast and we forget that we come from a place of nothing and we create all this within us. We learn, we create, or we acquire the knowledge that’s necessary.

You did not know how to walk when you first started, you did not know how to ride a bicycle before you learn edit, you did not know any of the things that you know today when you first came into this life.

Business is no different; it is the same the same process.

What we do not know today are the things that we can be masters of tomorrow.

That is something that we forget when we want to go on this path, but this is where I want to remind you that mastering something starts with the first step of moving in the direction of what seems absolutely scary at first.

So again, if you’ve been laid off this is a tremendous opportunity to dive deep and ask yourself what are the things that I love to do and then…

put them on a piece of paper and…

start formulating ideas on how you can achieve them.

if you have any questions any comments or you’re feeling like you need some answers. Please do reach out to me in the comment section here below or you can send me an email at ahmed@voebeheard.com. I would be more than happy to answer your questions.

My friend keep a strong faith in whatever you have right now and know that everything is going to get better tomorrow.

Proven Business Strategies that Will Set Your Business For Success.

I have been in business for over 7 years now and I know that the hardest thing as an entrepreneur is having a well thought out strategy that takes you on a path leading to success.

I wish I had some of the strategies my guest today, Carl Gould, is going to share with you when I was starting out in business. I know it would have saved me years of doing things ineffectively and the pain that comes with it.

But you don’t have to go through the same struggle if you know where to spend your energy.

In this Episode You Will Learn:

How does your personality affect your business.

How to create a compelling strategy and two factors that will guarantee success.

About Carl Gould

My guest today,Carl Gould, is a worldwide leading authority on business and entrepreneurship. His company, 7 Stage Advisors helps organizations grow to the next level. He is an entrepreneur who built three multi-million dollar businesses by age 40. 7 Stage Advisors, has mentored the launch of over five thousand businesses. He has advised over 100 of the Inc. 500/5000 Fastest-Growing Companies. Some of the companies he’s helped are companies like Walgreens, Walmart, American Idol , USA Olympic Track, IBM, McGraw-Hill and the US Army.

Gould created the farthest-reaching business mentoring organization in the world, and his methodologies are in practice in 35 countries. He has trained, certified or accredited over 7,000 Business Coaches and Mentors since 2002.

Carl has written multiple books on the subject of business strategy, leadership and sustainable growth. He co-authored “Blueprint for Success” with Stephen R. Covey and Ken Blanchard; and his best-selling book, “The 7 Stages of Small Business Success”, lays out the formula for HyperGrowth.

When we chose to pursue our passion through the work we do we chose to speak our voice. So many of us live with our voices within fearing judgment and becoming subjugated to self doubt. In this episode I explore why your voice matters and how you can rise up beyond the fear that stops you.

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Creativity Can Boost Productivity in Ways You Might Not Expect

This week’s episode is a continuation from our last week’s journal where we talked about creativity and productivity and how you can create room in your life for creativity by understanding the nature of thought.

How creativity brings you into a State of Flow and how you can hack creativity by understanding a few simple yet powerful concepts.

If you haven’t listened to that episode I highly recommend you back and do that now, it will give you perspective on the conversation that we are going to have in this episode.

This week, Shenan a transformational coach and I talk about:

How can you think outside the box.

Distractions are caused by thinking, how to get rid of distractions.

Creativity killers: fear, self-judgment and how to deal with them.

How to foster creativity by getting curious.

Listen in Above…

About Shenan Charania:

Shenan is a transformational coach work with men and women who are endlessly curious about how they can live their lives with more passion and meaning. People that are on a mission in their lives that is bigger than their own interests. His work revolves around bringing out your potential and what makes you special.

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Productivity and Creativity is Usually Never Talked About in the Same Sentence.

In this podcast we explore how being creative can boost your productivity in a way that you might not expect.

But what I have seen in my own work and in the work of all my guests that have come on the show is that the highest levels of productivity is achieved during times when the mind is allowed to be the most creative.

Now, note that I said allowed, yes for so many of us being creative can be a scary proposition and that is why we lock down our creativity fearing judgment and may be even ridicule.

But if we let it come through, creativity can bring you in a space where being productive becomes a by-product

but before we can be productive we must allow ourselves to be creative.

The Secret to Productivity Lies in Fostering Creativity

In this episode we are going to discuss how you can create room in your life for creativity by understanding the nature of thought.

Creativity brings you into a State of Flow.

You Can Hack Your Creativity by Learning:

How creativity is an impersonal power available to us all.

Creativity is a vehicle to manifesting your genius.

Creativity allows you to step outside of the realm of thinking and open you to the beauty of life.

Reminding yourself to be curious is one of the best way to be creative and therefore productive.

Listen in Above…

About Shenan Charania:

Shenan is a transformational coach work with men and women who are endlessly curious about how they can live their lives with more passion and meaning. People that are on a mission in their lives that is bigger than their own interests. His work revolves around bringing out your potential and what makes you special.

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An impulse is an urgency to do something we know might not be good for us.

And here is the irony, self control is the very thing that makes your impulses uncontrollable.

Let’s quickly define what an impulse is. An impulse is an urge for something that distracts you from what you ought to be doing. So many of us struggle with dealing with impulses or urges that feel like we have no power over, like overeating, binge TV watching, checking the phone too much, even the habit of smoking starts with an impulse.

Listen in as I walk you through a process of understanding your impulses and give you a simple yet powerful way to deal with any impulses that comes up.

And what I will tell you is probably what you’re not expecting to hear.

I want this podcast to be a resource for you that you can come back to every time you feel an impulse to do something.

This is something you can listen to time and time again whenever you feel like you’re giving into something you know you don’t want to.

Get the Full Episode Transcript

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Every entrepreneur starts a company with an idea to solve a problem that they see in their world. And you have to be a little crazy to believe that you can solve the problem when others don’t.

My guest on the show today started his entrepreneurial journey with the thought that work and fun does not have to separate.

But then he spotted an opportunity which then later evolved into a multi-million dollar business that now spans across the globe.

He is the founder of Picatic a company that you may heard or even used in the past to organize your event but if you haven’t and you’re into organizing events Picatic lets you create, promote, and sell tickets for a variety of events.

In a few years the company has been growing fast!

Already covering north America, most of Europe and Australia it is now expanding into major global markets around the world.

As if that wasn’t enough, Jayesh Parmar the CEO of Picatic and his team also have a very strong social mission that has already raised millions of dollars for charity around the world with a target of raising $100 million dollar in 2018.

Jayesh talks to me about what it is like to grow a company from scratch and take it to a global brand.

What You’ll Learn From This Conversation:

How do you determine your products unique value proposition

How to evaluate you startup’s chances of success using the PTMT model, product, team, market and traction.

How did he overcome his biggest challenge that almost forced the company to shut down.

Understanding the life time value of your customers to drive exceptional customer service.

How to market your brand and measure it using the Net Promoter Score or NPS that Picatic has been using to become a game changer in their industry.

This was an engaging conversation but super fun and light hearted because Jayesh reminded me how important it is to know your mission but not forget to have fun while going through it all.

He definitely taught me a few things that I hadn’t considered before and he shared moments in his business that would make most people quit.

One of the most important things to learn from Jayesh’s experience is picking the right people to build a team. When you have a mission driven business the people you chose to bring on board are sharing more than just a workplace they share a common vision on how they see themselves being part of creating a world they would want to live in.

Coming Up:

Our next event coming up this month on February 20th in beautiful downtown Vancouver. The event is called PHOOD with Consciouspreneurs people having open and organic discussion with other entrepreneurs. The evening revolves around people sharing their answer to this one powerful question: If You Had the Whole World’s Attention What Would You Say? Everyone that comes will be invited to speak of their deepest desires and dreams with everyone there. A chance to speak as if the whole world was listening. I mean just imagine It is going to be an evening filled with some powerful moments that will make everyone there dream big, think big an put into motion a ideas that lets them do big. So if you want to know how you can be part of this evening check out the events page at voebeheard.com/events or join the facebook group and get all the details there. I sincerely hope to see you there.